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What an exhausting year for us all. I swear I caught every virus going, missed more work than I've ever missed, and spent more time lying...

So, the Erewhon Day Boy and Stone Road editions are now available everywhere that sells books - or you should at least be able to order...

The Stone Road is releasing in the US next Tuesday. I've been waiting for this moment for over two years, never quite believing that this...

Here are the covers for Day Boy and The Stone Road, art by Qistina Khalidah, and design by Dana Li. I could look at these for hours. The...

I'll be at the Brisbane Writers Festival this weekend, talking about The Stone Road and writing Fantasy. The book goes to the printers in...

It's been a couple of weeks of edits. Edits for short stories, edits for the US edition of the Stone Road (which are coming along nicely)...

What a week! I've been to Brisbane Comic-con (which was delight) and finally had the Australian launch of Stone Road at Avid Reader....

Here it is. The Australian edition of the book is out and available at Avid Reader, where I'll be launching it with my wonderful agent...

Well, the year has gotten away from me. Catching COVID didn't help, but we're on the other end of it now. The Stone Road is being...

I’ve been working through last minute edits of The Stone Road these last few weeks, which is the first time I’ve really looked deeply at...

I've spent the first day of the new year working on edits of The Stone Road. There'll be more to come, but this is for the Brio edition....

Today is my 49th birthday, and I can now look back on around 34 years of writing fiction. Though I was writing well before then, I only...

It has been a busy year, both personally and at work. A new child, and Covid year-two made for a lot of competition timewise (not that...

I'm thrilled to announce that the Giant and the Sea won the Environment Award for Children's Literature. Here was my speech. Thank you to...

My next novel The Stone Road, the writing of which has been a long road indeed, is slated for publication in March 2022. I'm very proud...

I have been busy, and am aching to make a few announcements, but for now there is one huge one. This little person is three weeks old in...

I'm currently working through a rough draft of a new project that will hopefully be the link between Day Boy and Stone Road, and will...

I have a new book coming out, that I can't quite shout about yet. Which gets me thinking about the what comes after. I’ve gotten my joy...

As much as I would like vast swathes of time to write, most of what I do happens in small windows of moments*. Last week, while I was on...

I always forget (well, enter a state of complete denial) how bone-crushingly exhausting retail is at this time of year, and this year,...